Health committee asks minister to report on injection sites

The Commons health committee is asking the federal health minister for a report on her review of legislation dealing with supervised injection sites.

The call comes as the committee conducts an emergency study of the opioid crisis in Canada.

Liberal MP Sonia Sidhu put forward a motion, passed Thursday, that calls on Health Minister Jane Philpott to “move as quickly as possible to conduct a review of the laws and regulations in place with regard to supervised injection sites” and report back to the committee.

The motion landed on a day when the committee was hearing from witnesses calling for